A former stripper at the Penthouse Executive Club is suing for “emotional distress” over a billboard that portrays as a stripper – for Scores.

In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Nicole Hughes says she was put in the compromising position after she was forced to take part in a photo shoot for Penthouse while working there between 2007 and last year.

“They told her if she didn’t do it, she’d be fired,” said Hughes lawyer, Matthew Blit.

She was also pressured into signing a release and told she’d be paid a whopping $4, but was assured “her pictures would only be used by ‘Penthouse’ and affiliated with the ‘Penthouse’ name,” the suit says.

The busty beauty tried to forget about the incident – but she got two big reminders this past November.

“I was riding in the back of a taxi minding my business, looking out the window, and boom, there I am, massive in my underwear on a billboard for Scores! I about fell out of my seat,” she said.

“I was so upset that I called my mom and then, boom, another one!”

The Levine & Blit lawyer said his client had tried to keep her dancing life private, but now “it was in the open for everyone to see – friends, family, everyone.”

“It’s a lot different dancing in the privacy of a club than seeing yourself plastered all over huge billboards,” Hughes explained.

“I just felt so betrayed. How could they do all that and not tell me?” she said. She complained to club management, but they told her they could do whatever they wanted with pix.

“I ultimately decided to leave the club because I felt so betrayed. Penthouse was a different image than Scores,” she said. “She thought Penthouse was more reputable,” Blit added.

The suit seeks unspecified money damages for Hughes’ “mental anguish, emotional distress, humiliation and loss of reputation.” It also says Penthouse never paid her the four bucks for the shoot.

A woman who answered the phone at Penthouse – which is owned by the same person who owns the celebrity haunt Scores – declined comment.

Hughes said she’s “decided to get out of that world altogether,” and is now living in Florida, where she’s “throwing myself into my art and will most likely attend college in the fall.”